MK II "IS" the best.

UMK3 is the best.

UMK3

I use to know every Fatality, Babality, and Friendship for every character... but over the years, I forgot them

I'm gonna get ripped for this, but...UMK3 sucks hard for me. Not only it looks undeveloped (in design) but it is also the same old MK3 with some new characters. And the power ranger suit the ninjas had...

MK2 for me.

LoL, the "UMK3 is the same as MK3" thing has been done to death so I won't bother with it here.

UMK3 is the best. Best gameplay in the MK series yet. Deepest, most interesting, tightest, best.

LOL @ deepest... it's a 2D game. Anyway, MK2.

Yup :) and even with only 2 dimensions its still deeper then the 3D MKs, which is a sad sad thing.

... LOL, you right!

If you aks for the most classic MK feeling I would choose MK2, but from the pure gameplay aspect UMK3 is definitly far superior than the other oldschool MK,s.
The thing about UMK3 is, that you have to play it much longer to realize that its better.
And of course dont play SNES shit UMK3 ect. Arcade is the only true MK.

Love your sig BTW.

Halo 2 < Quake 1

It's about damn time someone speaks the truth. I don't care what anyone says... take a look at how much of a difference there is between MK 1/MK II & MK3 onwards. The MK team totally screwed things up with the new MK image. Something went wrong in there... IMO
Peace

mmmm....in graphics and music and blah blah blah i pick MK2,in faster and better gameplay i pick UMK3....



fear the Noob....

UMK3 > MK+MKII+MK3+MK4+MKDA+MKD

Matt

OMG, that's so true.

MKII for me.

My list in order

MK II MK: 3 MK : DA Deception MK1 MK4 (Way to easy for me)
oh and counting trilogy, it would be my 3rd fav

1.mk 2

2. mk t

3. mkd

For me especially (personal opinion) UMK3 was the deep point of the series. I simply did not like the idea of too much ccharacters. Why? Becouse the more characters you have, the more sophisticated the story gets, ergo, there is a lesser significance of others compared to a single individual fighters.

MKDA and MKD however held back on the balancing of char. limit. 24 is enough, but I should say, if Midway keeps this up, there can be even 30without drawbacks on the plotline. Why?

example: Hotaru Dairou, Havik, Darrius tie into each other, and clearly separates a plot group (Seido) while other such as Noob Saibot, Smoke, Sub-Zero (Lin Kuei) are also tied into each other -but not so thight.

But the most important thing is, that each character was clearly separatable by looks, moves or move groups, specials and plotline.
This is what UMK3 and MKtrilogy lacked.

Rain was a weather like character-geez, we had Rayden, plus he was another sprite ripoff ninja. Hes storyline was one of the worst.
Sektor: I feel he was unnecessary. Both Smoke and Cyrax could fulfill every demands of the storyline, having Smoke in Sektors place, and even it would have added more drama, becouse Smoke was Sub-Zeros friend.

you get the picture...
UMK3 was not that bad, I still like it becouse of it's variability and game system, but simply MK2 still had that second sequel feel, and MK3/UMK3 was like another episode of the Village People or Dalllas.
MK3s greatest problem was it's plotline development (goood ideas, but horrible execution on the characters whereabouts during the fights...) and atmosphere -Fucking idiotic fatalities-excuse me, but this is true. MK3 was lightyears behind MK2 in average hideousness.

Nothing touches UMK 3 :)

UMK3 is my fav and my favorite fighting game of all time that engine owns every engine out there. Kills them all even the new fighting games engines still cant touch it.Umk3 best fighting game ever best engine ever in my view.

mk2 hands down was the best
umk3 was the more fun, but not better

MK2 definatly looked better than UMK3 and had far more interesting fatalities (more realistic, not the cartoon-like shit of UMK3). But as far as playability and head-to-head gameplay goes, UMK3 has been the best so far. You can have those matches where it really comes down to the wire at the end of the third round and you almost shit your pants. MKII wasn't fast-paced enough for that kind of defecation-inducing action.

I think when someone uses the word "game," the idea of "fun" is implied as the most important factor, whether the fun comes from thinking or simply playing.

Matt

Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3